--add_module for filters?

I'm trying to write a bare-bones body and header filter (just prints a
debugging message for headers and the body), and found that when I put
added it to the configuration with the --add-module configure directive,
it was placed BEFORE all of the filters in the load order (especially
the write filter). This meant that the http_write filter was called
before my filter, and my filter was never getting called (http_write
emits the output, assuming it's at the 'top' of the chain).
Moving my module to the bottom of the list, after the
http_not_modified_filter_module in the objs/ngx_modules.c file, I was
able to get it to work as expected.
Besides editing objs/ngx_modules.c to manually place my module in the
correct order, is there any way to add in a non-standard filter into the
correct order in nginx's configure command?
thanks,
-Brian Moran